/boot/loader.conf debuging traces come out jumbled
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:07:09 UTC
Debugging my /boot/loader.conf on 12.2-STABLE (with a 12.2-RELEASE kernel, (as 12.2-STABLE & 12.3-RELEASE & 13.0-RELEASE GENERIC kernels crash during boot on one machine here (To be subject of later analysis & posting)... I got distracted onto debugging boot options, after output from booting screen rolled off the top), So I concentrated first on identifying & hashing out noisey boot options , before next searching how to capture boot text (maybe to a serial port ?) ) I tried adding markers to loader.conf create deliberate visible error texts to mark around lines I wanted to study the effect of, eg fuse_load="YES" etc ... I added this in the middle of /boot/loader.conf : ZZZZZZZZZ00000000_load="YES" ZZZZZZZZZ00001111_load="YES" ZZZZZZZZZ00002222_load="YES" ZZZZZZZZZ44440000_load="YES" ZZZZZZZZZ44441111_load="YES" ZZZZZZZZZ44442222_load="YES" & next boot showed a weirdly disordered: Loading configured modules... can't find 'ZZZZZZZZZ00000000_load' can't find 'ZZZZZZZZZ00002222_load' can't find 'ZZZZZZZZZ44442222_load' can't find 'ZZZZZZZZZ44440000_load' can't find 'ZZZZZZZZZ44441111_load' can't find 'ZZZZZZZZZ00001111_load' /etc/hostid size=0x25 its not even just a reverse order that one might have expected from a forth unstacker or some such. Makes it harder to trace what output lines come from which loader.conf lines. -- Julian Stacey http://berklix.com/jhs/ http://stolenvotes.uk Minimise contact, vax insufficient. Prime liar a liability to cons & UK.